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Summary: Enjoy this DVD over and over.
Review: Audrey Hepburn is charming, Michael York narrates, and the filming is stunning. Features gardens of the world. Favorite sections are the roses and public gardens. After watching several times, didn't realize that the DVD flips over to play the opposite side. You can also play the classical music that is used in the filming. Highly recommend this DVD.
Rating:
Summary: Enjoy this DVD over and over.
Review: Audrey Hepburn is charming, Michael York narrates, and the filming is stunning. Features gardens of the world. Favorite sections are the roses and public gardens. After watching several times, didn't realize that the DVD flips over to play the opposite side. You can also play the classical music that is used in the filming. Highly recommend this DVD.
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Summary: Not just eye candy!
Review: Beautifully conceived and beautifully executed, this is truly and amazing DVD! The two-sided disk contains eight half-hour visits to the world's most beautiful gardens, plus eighty minutes of great music-only tracks, and two great behind-the-scenes segments showing Ms Hepburn at her most charming and personable.I bought this DVD because I'm a Hepburn fan and her participation in this project certainly lends the entire undertaking a touch of class. She introduces each segment, reads poetry (and Anne Frank), converses with gardeners, and makes observations of her own--usually as she drifts in or out of the picture wearing elegant Ralph Lauren outfits and swinging a straw basket or plucking a bloom or two. (Watching the episodes in quick succession, I realized how true it is that she always favors her left profile.) In some episodes, however, she is barely on screen at all. As these shows were taped the year before her death, I suspect her participation was limited by the state of her health and that she was not able to fly to every location. Although the shows would have been much poorer without Ms Hepburn, they are substantial in their own right. I found the episode on "Tulips and Spring Bulbs" especially informative. The bulk of the script, it should be noted, fell into the lap of the narrator, Michael York. He rose to the occasion as best he could, but some of the text he was expected to read was surely not written to be read aloud by any human being. (One amusing moment occurred when Mr. York, using his best Oxonian English, referred to George Washington as "OUR founding father.") The theme that seemed to run through all the episodes is that gardening is a delicate collaboration between man and nature. As Ms Hepburn states, quoting gardener Anne Leighton (?), "A garden, to be a garden, must represent a different world, however small, from the real world....Gardening offers man a chance to regulate at least one aspect of his life--to control his environment and show himself as he wishes to be."
Rating:
Summary: Not just eye candy!
Review: Beautifully conceived and beautifully executed, this is truly and amazing DVD! The two-sided disk contains eight half-hour visits to the world's most beautiful gardens, plus eighty minutes of great music-only tracks, and two great behind-the-scenes segments showing Ms Hepburn at her most charming and personable. I bought this DVD because I'm a Hepburn fan and her participation in this project certainly lends the entire undertaking a touch of class. She introduces each segment, reads poetry (and Anne Frank), converses with gardeners, and makes observations of her own--usually as she drifts in or out of the picture wearing elegant Ralph Lauren outfits and swinging a straw basket or plucking a bloom or two. (Watching the episodes in quick succession, I realized how true it is that she always favors her left profile.) In some episodes, however, she is barely on screen at all. As these shows were taped the year before her death, I suspect her participation was limited by the state of her health and that she was not able to fly to every location. Although the shows would have been much poorer without Ms Hepburn, they are substantial in their own right. I found the episode on "Tulips and Spring Bulbs" especially informative. The bulk of the script, it should be noted, fell into the lap of the narrator, Michael York. He rose to the occasion as best he could, but some of the text he was expected to read was surely not written to be read aloud by any human being. (One amusing moment occurred when Mr. York, using his best Oxonian English, referred to George Washington as "OUR founding father.") The theme that seemed to run through all the episodes is that gardening is a delicate collaboration between man and nature. As Ms Hepburn states, quoting gardener Anne Leighton (?), "A garden, to be a garden, must represent a different world, however small, from the real world....Gardening offers man a chance to regulate at least one aspect of his life--to control his environment and show himself as he wishes to be."
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Summary: Great series, odd DVD
Review: Gardens is one of the best most inclusive look at various gardens throughout the world. I especially loved the rose garden segment and watch it whenever I need to have a calm break from the world. Hepburn is very passionate about the need for gardens and appreciative of all the beauty found in them. I recommend this for all nature lovers.
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Summary: A Relaxing Mental Trip
Review: Gardens is one of the best most inclusive look at various gardens throughout the world. I especially loved the rose garden segment and watch it whenever I need to have a calm break from the world. Hepburn is very passionate about the need for gardens and appreciative of all the beauty found in them. I recommend this for all nature lovers.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I ordered this series because I am an avid Audrey Hepburn fan. The candid footage of her in England and Holland was a joy to watch. I also found myself very entertained by the wonderful Gardens shown as well as the historical info on gardening, different types of gardens (Zen, Flower, Formal, etc), and the interesting information on the development of flowers. A+
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Summary: The most enchantingly beautiful program I have ever seen!
Review: I waited 8 years for this! The vhs version does not do justice to this amazing series. Everything about this dvd is wonderful, the music, the cinematograhpy, writing, and the Gardens! I dream as I watch this.......... Gives us a glimpse of what paradise will look like..........hurry up New World!
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Summary: The most enchantingly beautiful program I have ever seen!
Review: I waited 8 years for this! The vhs version does not do justice to this amazing series. Everything about this dvd is wonderful, the music, the cinematograhpy, writing, and the Gardens! I dream as I watch this.......... Gives us a glimpse of what paradise will look like..........hurry up New World!
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Summary: Gardens of the World
Review: I've watched the DVD several times and cannot find a link
to purchase the followup DVD: Penelope Hobhouse, The Art and
Practice of Gardening...Has anyone found this DVD? help....
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